Sylvia was the youngest of 5 children: three girls and two boys. The boys died before Sylvia had a chance to know them. She was a maker of hats at Eaton's, mother to one son Kirby, a heartbroken widow at 58. She was short in stature and sang in the church choir along side the very tall Helen Bailey. Sylvia would say, "Wasn't that a corker as we must have been a sight". She was born in Toronto, actually in The Junction, and lived and married in Toronto from the 1890's to the 1930's. In the 1940's she moved to Maple Ontario where her father once farmed. In Maple, she had a laugh with the other old church ladies, lied about her age and drove her 4 grandchildren crazy.
She owned a blue 1968 Oldsmobile with a V8 engine and drove that car as if she drove for Penske Racing. She never once, not even when she was 85, hesitated to back that car into a steady stream of traffic and jack rabbit her way home. One day she stepped on the gas instead of the brake and that Olds took flight into a farmer's field near Shurgain Farms. The grey haired occupants survived, but Sylvia was never the same.
She lived the rest of her long life in a nursing home thinking she was at a horse race. I hope she was betting to win.
Sylvia Natalie Kirby is buried in the Maple United Cemetery, close to her parents and brothers. She lies next to her love, Ernie.
She owned a blue 1968 Oldsmobile with a V8 engine and drove that car as if she drove for Penske Racing. She never once, not even when she was 85, hesitated to back that car into a steady stream of traffic and jack rabbit her way home. One day she stepped on the gas instead of the brake and that Olds took flight into a farmer's field near Shurgain Farms. The grey haired occupants survived, but Sylvia was never the same.
She lived the rest of her long life in a nursing home thinking she was at a horse race. I hope she was betting to win.
Sylvia Natalie Kirby is buried in the Maple United Cemetery, close to her parents and brothers. She lies next to her love, Ernie.
Sylvia was the youngest of 5 children: three girls and two boys. The boys died before Sylvia had a chance to know them. She was a maker of hats at Eaton's, mother to one son Kirby, a heartbroken widow at 58. She was short in stature and sang in the church choir along side the very tall Helen Bailey. Sylvia would say, "Wasn't that a corker as we must have been a sight". She was born in Toronto, actually in The Junction, and lived and married in Toronto from the 1890's to the 1930's. In the 1940's she moved to Maple Ontario where her father once farmed. In Maple, she had a laugh with the other old church ladies, lied about her age and drove her 4 grandchildren crazy.
She owned a blue 1968 Oldsmobile with a V8 engine and drove that car as if she drove for Penske Racing. She never once, not even when she was 85, hesitated to back that car into a steady stream of traffic and jack rabbit her way home. One day she stepped on the gas instead of the brake and that Olds took flight into a farmer's field near Shurgain Farms. The grey haired occupants survived, but Sylvia was never the same.
She lived the rest of her long life in a nursing home thinking she was at a horse race. I hope she was betting to win.
Sylvia Natalie Kirby is buried in the Maple United Cemetery, close to her parents and brothers. She lies next to her love, Ernie.
She owned a blue 1968 Oldsmobile with a V8 engine and drove that car as if she drove for Penske Racing. She never once, not even when she was 85, hesitated to back that car into a steady stream of traffic and jack rabbit her way home. One day she stepped on the gas instead of the brake and that Olds took flight into a farmer's field near Shurgain Farms. The grey haired occupants survived, but Sylvia was never the same.
She lived the rest of her long life in a nursing home thinking she was at a horse race. I hope she was betting to win.
Sylvia Natalie Kirby is buried in the Maple United Cemetery, close to her parents and brothers. She lies next to her love, Ernie.
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